not the building, but the beam

Sexuality Headcanon:

I think we can pretty definitively call Louis gay. I think he's whatever is gayer than a Kinsey 6. I think if there had ever been the slightest hint of a whisper of attraction to women - any woman at all - in his heart, he would have married that woman immediately and they would both have spent the rest of their lives absolutely miserable. But even Louis, who has an immense capacity for self-delusion, wasn't able to go that far.

Gender Headcanon:

I think Louis is pretty solidly cis and masc, but the ways in which that manifest for him are absolutely fascinating. Louis is someone who is very interested in appearance, both as a self-protective instinct (as he says in the pilot, you had to look tough to survive) and as a form of self-expression. He is very intentional about the clothes he wears and what they say about him - clothing as a gender symbol and clothing as a status symbol. He is always impeccably groomed, he styles his hair, he keeps himself neat. This is something that wasn't really gendered when he was alive, but it has been for a large chunk of the 20th century - remember when men got called "metrosexual" for putting product in their hair or using moisturizer? But even when we saw him in the seventies, a period where he was objectively doing Not Great, he still looked fantastic. It's not really a gendered thing to want to look nice, but it does interest me that he prides himself on it even in times and places where it was not necessarily the norm.

A ship I have with said character:

I think Louis and Lestat need to be together because they would make any other partner miserable. Like, genuinely, they fit in a way that neither of them will ever fit anyone else. They also clash in the worst ways (Louis withdraws emotionally as a form of self-protection, Lestat panics at the thought of abandonment) but they're always still drawn back together.

A BROTP I have with said character:

As much as he and Daniel are uhhhhhh on the outs at the moment, I do find their dynamic hilarious. And at the best of times, they get along great! I think Louis - who, as I said, is the king of denial - needs someone in his life who will pop that balloon, and Daniel loves nothing more than popping balloons.

A NOTP I have with said character:

He and Armand need to not be together. Or around each other. It's not just their history (all of these characters have harmed each other irreparably, that's the whole point) it's that their relationship styles are fundamentally at odds, and they don't like each other enough to make up for it. Louis wants - needs - to be challenged, he wants someone who will keep him on his toes. Armand is someone with no inner self who shapes himself into whatever he thinks his lover wants. It's tailor made to drive Louis insane with boredom. The softest, beigest pillow, etc. etc.

A random headcanon:

I think he probably got taken to a brothel as a young teenager by an older male relative (maybe his dad, maybe an uncle or an older cousin) to lose his virginity. I think his family clocked him as gay very early and said, "okay, we're going to fix this," and the rest is history. It's (part of) why he is so concerned with performance - at a key developmental stage, he failed to perform the way he was expected to, and he's still chasing that.

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